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Company Overview of Celestron, LLC

Company Overview

Celestron, LLC designs, manufactures, and imports optical products, including computerized and non-computerized telescopes, GPS devices, binoculars, spotting scopes, microscopes, and related accessories. The company offers astronomy products, such as optical tubes, mounts and tripods, astronomy binoculars, astroimaging cameras and accessories, visual accessories, and other accessories; sport optics, including binoculars, monoculars, spotting scopes, outdoor electronics, and accessories; and microscopes comprising digital, biological, and stereo microscopes, as well as weather stations and microscope accessories. It sells and markets its products to astronomers through dealers and distributor...

Celestron, LLC designs, manufactures, and imports optical products, including computerized and non-computerized telescopes, GPS devices, binoculars, spotting scopes, microscopes, and related accessories. The company offers astronomy products, such as optical tubes, mounts and tripods, astronomy binoculars, astroimaging cameras and accessories, visual accessories, and other accessories; sport optics, including binoculars, monoculars, spotting scopes, outdoor electronics, and accessories; and microscopes comprising digital, biological, and stereo microscopes, as well as weather stations and microscope accessories. It sells and markets its products to astronomers through dealers and distributors in the United States and internationally. Celestron, LLC was formerly known as Valor Electronics. The company was founded in 1960 and is based in Torrance, California with an additional office in Basingstoke, United Kingdom. As of June 4, 2005, Celestron, LLC operates as a subsidiary of Synta Technology Corporation.

Celestron, LLC Key Developments

Celestron Announces New 2014 Product Lineup COSMOS

Jan 7 14

Celestron announced a new 2014 product lineup COSMOS: a spacetime odyssey by company in collaboration with Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products. From microscopic worlds, to terrestrial landscapes and interstellar space, the company reveals them all with optics and technology in celebration of COSMOS: a spacetime odyssey.

Celestron Opens First Overseas Office in the United Kingdom; Announces New Appointments to its New Office

Dec 4 13

Celestron, LLC announced the opening of its first overseas office in the United Kingdom, which will be devoted to international sales and dealer support.
Based outside of London, the new Celestron office will be headed by International Business Development Manager Dave Murray, who has been working remotely from the UK since coming onboard in September. Longtime International Sales Manager Anne Barton has also joined Dave to work in the new office, having relocated from Celestron’s home office in Torrance on November 30, 2013.

Celestron Launches Skyris™ USB 3.0 Planetary Imaging Cameras

Jul 1 13

For years, The Imaging Source has provided amateur astronomers with high-quality CCD cameras that elevate planetary imaging from a casual hobby into an art form. Celestron is thrilled to announce not only a landmark partnership with The Imaging Source, but the game-changing result of that collaboration: Skyris, a revolutionary new line of astronomical CCD cameras. Designed for beginning and advanced imagers alike, each of the six color and monochromatic Skyris models reveals the solar system from a completely new perspective, allowing to create stunning planetary images in crisp, high resolution. Superior internal components—including Sony® EXview HAD™ imaging sensors and high-speed USB 3.0 connections—result in great camera sensitivity with ultra-fast image capture. Capture more exposures in less time to record moments of the most stable air, resulting in the best image quality. Finally, the dynamic 12-bit image output dramatically outranges the 8-bit output of standard planetary CCDs.

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